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<blockquote data-quote="Poke78" data-source="post: 2050034" data-attributes="member: 4333"><p><a href="http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/" target="_blank">http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/</a></p><p></p><p>From Matt Bracken/Travis McGee, author of <em>Enemies Foreign and Domestic</em> and other novels, a letter for those who could be tasked with enforcing violations of the Second Amendment. There's a lot of interesting historical information to back up his treatise.</p><p></p><p>Short snip on "What's the matter with gun registration?":</p><p></p><p><strong>To say that Turkey did not enjoy a smooth transition from being the seat of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, through World War I and into the modernist Ataturk era, would be a massive understatement. In those turbulent times, ethnic Turks, Muslims composing the vast majority of the population, considered their Christian minorities, especially the Armenians, to be disloyal and treacherous.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>In 1911, a national gun registration law was passed in Turkey, with no apparent ill intention beyond increasing public safety. In 1915, during the Great War, these gun registration lists were used to disarm the Armenian and other Christian populations. Army battalions cordoned off entire towns and did gun sweeps. Once disarmed, the official state violence visited against the Armenians ratcheted up to murderous levels. Typically, on town-wide sweeps, all of the men and boys were taken away by the Turkish soldiers, never to be seen or heard from again.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poke78, post: 2050034, member: 4333"] [url]http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/[/url] From Matt Bracken/Travis McGee, author of [I]Enemies Foreign and Domestic[/I] and other novels, a letter for those who could be tasked with enforcing violations of the Second Amendment. There's a lot of interesting historical information to back up his treatise. Short snip on "What's the matter with gun registration?": [B]To say that Turkey did not enjoy a smooth transition from being the seat of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, through World War I and into the modernist Ataturk era, would be a massive understatement. In those turbulent times, ethnic Turks, Muslims composing the vast majority of the population, considered their Christian minorities, especially the Armenians, to be disloyal and treacherous. In 1911, a national gun registration law was passed in Turkey, with no apparent ill intention beyond increasing public safety. In 1915, during the Great War, these gun registration lists were used to disarm the Armenian and other Christian populations. Army battalions cordoned off entire towns and did gun sweeps. Once disarmed, the official state violence visited against the Armenians ratcheted up to murderous levels. Typically, on town-wide sweeps, all of the men and boys were taken away by the Turkish soldiers, never to be seen or heard from again.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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